User talk:Schlabbi

February 2013

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed your recent edit to Satellite does not have an edit summary. Please provide one before saving your changes to an article, as the summaries are quite helpful to people browsing an article's history. Thanks! Dawnseeker2000 21:37, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Satellite

In regards to this edit, I'm not so sure that all ArabSat satellite launches are attributable to Saudi Arabia. The organization is made up of multiple countries, and crediting all of them with the launch seems incorrect. Also, the link I provided, and you removed, seems to indicate the previous date was correct. I won't revert it right now because I'd like to hear what you have to say, but I think that's probably incorrect. Shadowjams (talk) 22:18, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

After reading more about this in detail, it's all about definitions I think. The Arabsat-1A was ordered by a private company Arab Satellite Communications Organization headquartered in Saudi-Arabia and the Saudi-Arabian state being the biggest shareholder as of 1985, while Saudisat 1A was made by Saudi Institute for Space Research. Because Arabsat-1A was not primarily constructed by Saudi-Arabians I will give credit to your point. The original source for the chart shows Saudisat as the first Saudi satellite. Schlabbi (talk) 22:56, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

I was surprised how little recent discussion there was on the talk page. You're right, it's all about the definition used in the article. Lists like that have a lot of questions because so many of the satellites are put up with substantial cooperation between nations. I put a thread in the talk page about it, hopefully some people with context will respond.

Thanks for looking into it. I would say it's a toss-up right now. I don't know enough about the Arab Sat program... the fact it's based out of Riyadh does suggest it is a SA launch. If you find more let me know and I'll try to help. Shadowjams (talk) 23:03, 21 February 2013 (UTC)